MANNAFEST

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

KJV

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ASV

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

WEB

This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

YLT

Therefore the king hath been angry and very wroth, and hath said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon;

DBT

For this cause the king was irritated and very wroth, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

About this book

Old Testament

DanielA Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.

Author
Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
Date
Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2

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